And in fact, you can take the wire, the electrode, and hook it up to a lever and teach the rat how to push the lever and give itself a little burst of pleasure.

事实上可以把电线，电极，连接到一个杠杆上，教老鼠,推动杠杆获得快感。

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You can even use an old-fashioned wire to hook them up to less-portable devices a desktop computer or CD player, for example.

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On top of all this they were able, in a different sort of test, to bend a piece of wire into a hook to retrieve a bucket containing a waxworm.

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He bets that corporations will ditch their old wire-line telephone hardware and buy new phones that send and receive calls over the same broadband connections that hook desktop computers to the internet.

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